Expertise

Professor Martins studies behavioral evolution by mapping the ancient history of lizard communication in the southwestern U.S. and by studying how sensory systems impact social behavior in the biomedically-important zebrafish. More generally, her research program asks about the evolution of complex behavioral phenotypes, and how evolutionary forces have interacted over long periods of time to shape phenotypic change.

Expertise Areas:

  • Behavior
  • Communication
  • Evolution
  • Fieldwork
  • Museum
  • Phylogenetics
  • Statistics
  • Vertebrates

Areas:

  • Zebrafish Behavioral Evolution
  • Lizard Display Evolution
  • Phylogenetic Comparative Methods

Areas: Global Change Biology

Martins studies behavioral evolution by mapping the ancient history of lizard communication in the southwestern US and by studying how sensory systems impact social behavior in the biomedically-important zebrafish.

Affiliations

Professor, Cognitive Science Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Evolutionary Biology PhD Program, School of Life Sciences, Natural Sciences Division, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University Tempe Campus, Arizona State University

Director, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior

Professor, School of Life Sciences, Natural Sciences Division, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University Tempe Campus, Arizona State University

Professor, Animal Behavior PhD Program, School of Life Sciences, Natural Sciences Division, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University Tempe Campus, Arizona State University

Professor, Biology PhD Program, School of Life Sciences, Natural Sciences Division, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University Tempe Campus, Arizona State University

Communities
Biological Science, Animal Science, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science
Degrees
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Zoology, 1992
MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biometry, 1991
BA, University of California, Berkeley, Zoology and Psychology, 1987
Keywords
animal behavior or ethology systematic biology biometry herpetology zoology phylogenetics evolutionary biology systematics life sciences biostatistics endangered species computational biology biological adaptation genetic models evolution terrestrial ecology
Languages
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Associations
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Animal Behavior Society
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society of Systematic Biologists